@Saoirse O’ Sullivan: ní bhuafaimid i gcoinne Breatain beag, a dúirt siad! Ha!
We can’t beat Wales they said! Ha!!!

@Mr. Common Sense: Any sign of Robbie Savage?….

@TheJournalAsGaeilge: Bellamy was in all his smug glory saying how Ireland had no chance, the reason they haven’t been in a world cup in 60 years is because they don’t have or understand what it’s like to have Irish spirit!

@Joe Conlon: tá ceart agat!
You’re right!

@Saoirse O’ Sullivan: couldn’t have said it any better!!!

@Mr. Common Sense: why on earth would that be the first thing to spring to mind. And if it did I’d at least wait til we’ve actually qualified.

@Joe Conlon: looked like he’d been crying before he came on live after the match

@Shane Murphy: this was a game set up for Houlihan, wales had no threat but we still brought the pressure on . Wes on the pitch would have been an easy 2/3 nil game

@Shane Murphy: Agree said before game wales are bang average without bale and not much better with him, people talk about the euros but a bad England team played them off the pitch, said 1-0 and won €60 too

@Jordan Callaghan:
Yeah where are all the moaners now with the O Neill must go nonsense after the Georgia game. Gone to ground I’d say.

@Jordan Callaghan:

Still don’t know why he doesn’t start Wes

@Popol Mazombe: we can’t be relying on a 35 year old the time

@Breno Rodgers: Colossal….that is all.

@Ewan Scott: Richard Dinner versus Russia “there are no more balls to hit”

@Joshua Walsh: Dunne, stupid auto correct!

@Dave Murray: Maybe Denmark or Switzerland then.

@Chucky Arlaw: Is it seeded in how high the 2nd placed table they are, or Uefa rankings seeded?

@Shanahan: rankings

@Conor Coughlan: Abdolutely correct nobody can tell me Wales are that much a better team than us that we sit back in fear for an entire half of a game and play completely negative in the run up to the goal. Christ i have never seen a more cowardly manager . The team qualified in spite of him not because of him

@Conor Coughlan: the goal came from Hendrick closing down the opposition, skill to keep the ball in play, a great cross, nice step over and a perfect finish……no mess involved!!!

@Dave O Keeffe: That stat is meaningless. If you’ve taken the trouble to watch all the games, you’d realise that we were in what was arguably the worst group of the lot. To paraphrase Johnny Giles, you have to take the group on its merits and none of the teams came out of this group looking impressive. It was a group of four very ordinary teams. Even tonight, goal-threat wise, the match was like watching two gummy pensioners striving to give each other a Finglas kiss.

@Andrew Eager: it’s not just a stat, it’s a fact. Tonight was Wales’ first loss in the group.

@Andrew Eager: 100% agree.

@Andrew Eager: persistence is playing an away game, sticking with it, defending for your life. Guile is dispossessing a defender when pressing high up the pitch. Technique is everything that happened after that. That is what MON told them to do. Hendrick even said so in his post match interview. Why would the manager tell the players to do something that he thinks they can’t?

@Dave O Keeffe: It’s fact that it’s a stat. But here’s another fact. We will almost certainly have qualified for the play-offs as the worst of the 8 teams. Put down the turd and stop polishing it, man!

@Dave O Keeffe: And no, persistence is what I require to keep forking out the money for a season ticket to watch players being told they’re not good enough to play football properly by their manager. Guile is what I have to use to fool myself into thinking the football will get attractive some day soon, and technique is what I use to stop myself turning the air blue at Ireland football matches in front of innocent little children.

The real question you should be asking is why does the manager feel that these players are not good enough to play football properly. They are the ones after all facing the likes of Aguero, Ozul, Hazard, week in week out in the Premiership.

@Andrew Eager: And for the record, I’m delighted we got through to the play-offs, but that doesn’t change some fundamental truths about how MON has this team playing.

@Andrew Eager: absolute moany hole!! Are you that begrudging? Go off and give your Mrs a good seeing to or whip redtube out if you’re on your own cause you need your hole

@John Flynn: Thank you for that quality footballing contribution, John. Much appreciated.

@Andrew Eager: I can’t understand what you’re even trying to say, we have done better than we should have on paper yet you’re here complaining. Would you rather we played better football and finished fourth? We over performed at the Euros and have over performed here again and it’s fuçking fantastic.

@Andrew Eager: Just to put everything in context, Iceland with a population of 350,000 qualified directly for the World Cup tonight.

@Dave O Keeffe: As someone who goes to all the home matches and some of the tournament matches, I’d like to qualify for tournaments and see us play football. It’s not that much to ask. Even Iceland can do it.

And your suggestion that we’ve over-performed by qualifying for tournaments and at recent tournaments is exactly the kind of MON negativity I’m talking about. Knock me all you want, but I’m the one who believes those players are well capable of playing a better class of football and succeeding.

@Andrew Eager: I’m afraid I’d trust MON’s opinion on the matter, what with him being a professional and everything. I’m not knocking you just questioning the attitude on a night of great joy. Taking pot shots is mó way to celebrate. PS I predicted that we’d beat Wales. Said it here before the Moldova game. There’s only one pessimist in the conversation and it’s not me. Iceland by the way, play the way we do but more defensively. Way to shoot your argument in the foot

@Conor Coughlan: ah feck off will ya!

@Dave O Keeffe: I’ve just watched Iceland’s highlights. They played more football in those few minutes than we have in two matches. And I’m not taking potshots. I was saying this last year, and I’m still saying now because nothing has changed. I want Ireland to do well as much as anyone else, but I don’t fancy getting to Russia to have another 2012 all over again.

I’m clearly not the only one who feels this way Dave. You might want to accept that stat too.

@Andrew Eager: Spot on Andrew. A less negative manager would have topped this poor group. Austria, Wales & Serbia at home and we took 2 points. We made Georgia look like Spain. Team selections have always been negative and the football bloody woeful to watch.

People need to look at the other M. O’Neill and the boys up North before they start spouting about us being a small nation and this is all we can hope for. And Iceland is an even better example. The emperor has no clothes but we’re all blind.

@Conor Coughlan: rubbish

@Pablo: neither of those teams play the kind of football you want.

@Conor Coughlan:
Just Spain or Brazil in disguise really, Conor! Yeah right!

@Conor Coughlan: well said bruv

@Michael Kelly: better team in what way? Ireland’s plan was soak up the pressure and catch them on the break. Their plan worked to perfection. How did Wales’ plan work out?

@Dermot Lane: sorry @beni

@Nollaig Elliot: That sums it up, Nollaig!

@beni gabor: ah Wales were pretty poor finishing to be fair , they were better on the ball and keeping possession – but there are schoolboy teams that can keep possession of ball better than this Ireland side , christ that wasn’t pretty but delighted for Mc Lean and the lads and hope the fans enjoy the night in Cardiff , we still have a bit more stressful painful torture to endure before we can hopefully secure a place but fair play for the defensive battling

@beni gabor:
Losers loooossseeerrrs!

@Paul Linehan:
Ah now, Paul!